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ABDOMINAL SUPPORTER.

Patented J'u1y 28, 1885 INVENTORA' WITNESSES S Y E N 0 H A (No Model.)

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ABDOMINAL SUPPORTER.

No. 323,003. Patented July 28, 1885.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY M. WERUM AND JOHN H. WERUM, OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNORS, 'BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO MARY M. WERUM, OF SAME PLACE.

ABDOMINAL SUPPORTE'R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,003, dated July 28, 1885.

' Application filed May 28,1884. (N0 model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MARY M. WERUM and JOHN H. WERUM, citizens of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Abdominal and Back Supporters, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to a combined stay and abdominal supporter; and the novelty consists in the construction, adaptation, and arrangement of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

The object of the invention is to provide a contrivance which shall support the region over the kidneys, to treat the various pains sizes and forms, which shall be simple and inexpensive of manufacture, efiicient and durable in service, and not liable to inordinately bind or cramp any portion of the body. These objects we attain by the device set forth herein, and fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specifica tion, and in which Figure 1 is a front perspective view. Fig. 2 is a perspective View taken from the rear; Fig. 8, an edge sectional view taken through the abdominal portion and adjusting-straps shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 a perspective View of the device in another form.

It will be understood that the device may be stiffened with whalebone, steel springs, or other suitable means, and that the material for the different parts may be of any preferred kind.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures, A designates the body of the device, the main portions of which are secured together by elastic strips, as B, and each of which is provided with an elastic pad, as C. The edges near the elastic strips B are properly stiffened,'and are adapted to fit snugly to the body of the wearer, and the pads are adapted topressin over the kidneys upon either side of the spinal column. The rear region and well down toward or upon the sacrum.

As shown in Fig. 1, flexible arms D pass horizontally from the upper part of this body, and by lacings or equivalent adjusting devices portion of the device passes over the lumbar d, are secured to an abdominal plate, F. This 7 plate F is formed in two parts, adjustably laced together at f, and the lower part is adj ustabl y secured to the hip-arms G by straps 9. Between the arms D and G, upon either side, is left the hip-space H. This construction allows a greater adjustment than the form shown in Fig. 3, in which the hip-arms G secure the body to the abdominal plate direct, and the said plate is formed of a single piece; but the said latter construction also embodies the essential features of the invention. The abdominal plate is stiffened and made of concavo-convex form to correspond with the parts which it is adapted to embrace, as seen in Fig.

construction being such as to allow the body of thewearer to bend laterally above the hips, whether the upper portion of the abdominal plate is used or not. We attach importance to the provisions for thus allowing the sidewise bending of the body, and to the provision ,for adjusting the device to various forms. The

part in connection with the arms D being located at the smaller part of the body, will prevent the device from working up, and the pad will always press inward to relieve pain. The hip-straps G allow free action of the hips, and the elastic part allows for the respiration. The lower portion of the plate F is formed to pass well down toward the pubes.

The horizontal division of the abdominal plate, dividing the same into two sections the edges of which are adj ustably secu red together by means of lacing, buckles, or other suitable devices, is an important feature of our invention, and enables us to separate the said sections more or less, in order to more readily and quickly fit persons of different sizes.

No claim is herein made for the back support shown in Fig. 4, which will be made the subject-matter for a future application.

Modifications in details may be made without departing from the principle or sacrificing the advantages of our invention, the essential as described, in combination with the body having two arms on each side thereof adjustably secured to a divided abdominal plate and forming hip-spaces, as and for the pur- 2o pose set forth.

3. The body A, joined at the back by elastics, and having pads, one upon eitherside of said elastics, and two arms on each side, in combination with a divided abdominal plate 25 adjustably secured together, as and for the purposes set forth. r

4 A supporter having a solid back, an abdominal plate divided horizontally and adj ustably laced together, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

MARY M. WERUM. JOHN H. WVERUM. XVitnesses:

T. I. McDoNNELL, JNO. M. KELsEY. 

